Linotype-machine.



D. S. KENNEDY.

LINOTYPE MACHINE.

Arrmomxon FILED 1.24, 1908;

919,024, 4 Patented Ap1f. 20, 1909.

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. called assemblin under certain conditions, interfere free passage of the matrices and wed e justi- 'it wi DAVID S. KENNEDY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF, NEW

YORK.

LINOTYPE-MACHINE I Application filed March 24,

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, DAVID S. KENNEDY, of the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Linotype-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

M invention has reference to line-casting mac ines of the eneral organization represented in Letters atent of the United States #436,532, and more particularly to such machines when provided with quadding or paragraphing devices represented in Letters Patent of the United States #786,155. In this mechanism, the matrices are assembled in a horizontal line in the top of a soelevator, by which the ted between two depend mg ngers on a horizontally movable carriage. The movement of this carria e to the left shifts the composed line. to the eft out of the elevator, in its path to the casting mechanism. In practice, it is found that the righthand finger e in Patent #786,155, standingno'rmally above the point at which the matrices enter the line, and servin to push the completed line forward to the left, will, with the couiqpleted line is fiers to their places at the end of the line. Y The object of my invention is to avoid thisinterference on the part of the finger, and it consists in combining-with the finger, means whereby it is automatically held away from its operative position during the composition of the lin r In the drawing I have shown my device in a preferred form as applied to a machine such as, shown in Patent #786,155, but it isto beunderst-ood that the form and arran ement of parts may be modified provi ed their eneral mode of action is retained, and l? alsobe understood that the devices may be applied to all machines of the general character shown. In the.drawing,Figure 1" is a front elevation of the assembler elevator and attendant ar s in accordance with my invention, the nger being raised to its inoperative 0- sition., Fig. 2 is a similar view with the finger in the active position which it assumes f h after the completion of the line. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the finger and its controlling device;

Specification of Letters Patent.

I triX line is lifted by Patented April 20, 1909. 1908. Serial No. 422,872.

belt upon which erated, and from which they are delivered over an inclined supporting surfaceC into the horizontal channel in the top of the assembler elevator D in front of the rotary star-wheel E, by which the line is forced endwise to make room for the incoming matrices.

F is a horizontally movable transfer carriage, having at the right end the depending finger-fa mounted on a horizontal pivot e. TlllS finger corresponds with the finger indicated by like letter in Patent #786,155.

When the composition of the line is completed, this finger hangs vertically in the position shown in Figr2, so that when the wa the elevator D, it will be embraced between finger e on the right, and the usual corresponding finger, not shown, at the left end of the carriage F. If the finger is permitted to remain in the osition shown in Fig. 2 during the composition of the line,

its lower end will occasionally interfere somewhat with the downward passage of the m atrices and the wedge spacers, which are delivered as usual from their magazine.

So far as described, the parts are or may be of the ordinary construction In applying my improvement, having in View the automatic movement of the finger to and from its operative position, I mount on the front of the frame a vertically sliding bar G, urged constantly upward by a spring H, and provided near its upper end with a lip g to act against the finger,.and atits lower end with a lip g, engaging beneath the assembling elevator D .r.

en the elevator is down in the normal or assembling position, it holds the slide G down in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that the lip g-bears against a shoulder on the finger c and holds the latter upward to the left of the assembling position and away from the path of the .ingoing matrices and spacers, The finger is thus prevented from interfering with the composition and is-also kept out pose of removing, inserting, or rearranging matrices as 1s frequentlynecessary.

of the Way so that the operator may ave free access to the assembler for the pur- When the composition of the line is completed and the elevator D raised, the slide G is released and rmitted to moveupward,

tion shown in Fig '2. This osition is assumed instantly so that as theassembler continues upward with the matrix line, the line carried against the left face of the finger e by which it is confined and moved to the left when the carriage F is shifted, after the elevator com letes its upward motion, The assembling e evator is lmmediately lowered to its normal position, thereby depressing the lip g of the slide to its first position, shown in Fig. 1, While the lip is in this position, the carriage returns from the left to its normal position, shown in Fig. 1, carrying with it the finger e, which is encountered by the lip g and compelled to swing upward to the position shown in Fig. 1, as the carriage completes its movement. This movement is due, of course,-to the fact that the shoulder on the finger bears against the lip 9, while the pivot of the finger continues to. move to the right with the carriage F.

From the'fore oing, it will be understood that the finger is eld normally out 'of action, or away from the assembling point; it is automatically dropped to the vertical or operative position as the elevator begins'its ascent; and that it is automatically lifted to and sustained in the inoperative positionas the carriage returns ,to its normal position, This finger e is commonly known in the'art as the right-handline-shifting finger. I

I believe it to be wholl new in-the art to combine with the line-shifiting carriage and a fin er movably attached thereto, means for ho din the finger away from the composing point uring' composition. 1 also believe it to be wholly new to combine withthe finger as stated, means for effecting its movement to and from the operative position automatically.

Having thus described myinvention, I

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1 In a machine of the class described, a

line-shifting carriage provided withapivoted' finger, and automatic means for moving the "finger away from the assembling point when the carriage assumes its normal position.

2. In a machine of the class described, a horizontally movable line-shifting carriage F provided withthe pivoted finger e, in comination with a movable stop to lift and sustain the finger as the carriage assumes its normal position.

3. In a machine of the class described an assembling elevator wherein the matrix ine is composed, a horizp'fitflly movable carria e rovidedwith a pivoted'finger to shift tfie ine from the elevator, and means controlled by the elevator for determining theposition of the finger with reference to the assembling point. v

4. In combination with the assembler elevat or D, the line-shifting carriage F and the fin er e ivoted to the carria e, the s rinm g P g P is actuated slide G controlled b the elevator and controllin the position 0 the fin 'er.

5. In a mac ine of the class descn ed, a line-shifting carriage provided with a ivoted finger, the assembling elevator, an intermediate m'earis through which the elevator controls the position of the finger.

6. In a machine of the class described, a

line-shifting carriage provided with a fin er pivoted to move in the direction in which't e carriage travels, in combination with the assembling elevator, and means controlled by the elevator to determine the position of the fin er.- a

n testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand this ninth day of March, 1908, in the presence of two attestingwitnesses.

DAVID S. KENNEDY. Witnesses:

JOHN R. Roe'nns, .J-ESSIE SMITH. 

